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Parker Solar Probe Not surprisingly, there was a lot of nail biting at Mission Control at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland as Parker plunged into the solar corona.
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David Szondy, New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025
In doing so, the agency hopes to understand why its outer atmosphere — the corona — is hotter than its surface, how does the solar wind work, and how the corona transforms into solar wind.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
But, again, what scientists really hope to discover is how the corona becomes the heliosphere.
—Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 5 Feb. 2025
Scientists are keen to observe the corona up close because researchers have long puzzled over why the outer layer of the sun’s atmosphere is hundreds of times hotter than the star’s surface.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 24 Dec. 2024
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David Szondy, New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025
In doing so, the agency hopes to understand why its outer atmosphere — the corona — is hotter than its surface, how does the solar wind work, and how the corona transforms into solar wind.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
But, again, what scientists really hope to discover is how the corona becomes the heliosphere.
—Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 5 Feb. 2025
Scientists are keen to observe the corona up close because researchers have long puzzled over why the outer layer of the sun’s atmosphere is hundreds of times hotter than the star’s surface.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 24 Dec. 2024
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“Corona.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corona. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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